Sevastopol Sketches

Sevastopol Sketches

Cover of the 1888 English edition.
Author	Leo Tolstoy
Original title	Севастопольскіе разсказы
Translator	Frank D. Millet
Country	Russia
Language	Russian
Subject	Crimean War, philosophy of war
Publication date	1855
Published in English	1887 (Harper)
Pages	240 p. (Paperback)

The Sevastopol Sketches (pre-reform Russian: Севастопольскіе разсказы, romanized: Sevastópolʹskiye razskázy; post-reform Russian: Севастопольские рассказы, romanized: Sevastópolʹskiye rasskázy), translated into English as Sebastopol Sketches or Sebastopol Stories or Sevastopol,^[1] are three short stories by Leo Tolstoy published in 1855 to record his experiences during the previous year's siege of Sevastopol in Crimea. These brief "sketches" formed the basis of many episodes in Tolstoy's most famous novel, War and Peace.